On 21/06/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
That brings up the question of what exactly the point of deletion is, then. Users can already get the text articles deleted for innocuous reasons from any number of friendly administrators, and if they don't know where to ask, that's something that the English Wikipedia should solve itself by editing the appropriate message.
[[WP:DRV]] already notes this. Userfying uncontroversial deletions for further work (e.g. not copyvios or living biographies) is a matter of asking.
- Email auto-notification of articles on someone's watchlist of being
proposed for AfD.
Hard to see how this would be implemented without a fair amount of special-case code being written specifically for the English Wikipedia or whatever.
Nominators are supposed to let people know an article they wrote (or substantially wrote) is being nominated, but they rarely bother.
- d.